Birth Happens: A Collection of Birth Stories

Are you pregnant for the first time and wondering what birth might be like?
Have you heard horror stories about childbirth from the people around you?
Are you curious about birthing without pain medicine?
Do you want to go into birth feeling powerful and not afraid?

Birth Happens is full of powerful and inspiring stories to help anyone prepare for a better birth experience. Reading these stories will help you learn more about the stages of labor, labor coping techniques, natural options for pain relief, and what standard procedures might be offered to you. It will also help you start and think about what your own birth preferences are.

Birth happens. Every minute, every hour, every day, babies are being born. Babies are born in hospitals, in birth centers, in homes, and even in cars. Babies can be born with doctors present, with midwives, or at home with no one but their family waiting to greet them. Birth happens with breech babies and with twins. Birth can be loud and messy and chaotic, but it can also be calm, beautiful, and euphoric.

Birth is beautiful and natural. Birth can also be very very hard work.

BIRTH HAPPENS will provide education and inspiration. Feeling informed is the easiest way to feel confident about birth!